Shipwire in the News

May 15, 2013

It may seem logical that if your business doubles in size, the complexity of your logistics will grow at the same rate. Not true, says Software Thinktank.

“What is your process for filling customer orders?” the business management software company asked on its blog. “Do you send a warehouse worker out to dig under piles of unmarked boxes until the desired inventory items are located? Imagine multiplying the complexity of that process by two, three, etc., depending on how many warehouses you have.”

Logistics is an area of business that grows along with your company, but in a different way. Rather than becoming bigger, logistics becomes more complex. Here, we look at three ways in which this happens, and what businesses can do to grow their logistics in the best way possible.